Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has issued a decree with clarifications concerning liturgical translation.
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Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of worship and the arts for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Gathering for the Eucharist: Ancient Ritual, Contemporary Challenges
This Fairfield University “Living Theology Workshop” will focus on some lively issues concerning Sunday Mass, 50+ years after Vatican II.
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Pope Saint Paul VI on Implementing the Liturgical Reform
There are a lot of connections here to what Pope Francis has done and is doing.
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Halfway Across the Ford: A Prayer
The ford is the full implementation of the Council itself.
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Webinar from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music to Launch June 21
The series is entitled, “Accompanying the Dying and the Dead in the Time of COVID”
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Popular Piety: Holy Cards
Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.
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Women in Instituted Ministries: “A Milestone and a Point of No Return”
It “will not fail to positively mark the life of the Church.”
Read morePope Francis Celebrates Holy Thursday with Cardinal Becciu
It raises more questions than it answers, because the Triduum liturgies belong to everyone.
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Pope Francis and the Cause of Liturgical Renewal
Pope Francis is fostering liturgical renewal from within the dynamic of participation.
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Shake Up at Saint Peter’s Basilica Favors the Liturgy of Vatican II
No more private Masses at St. Peter’s.
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